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Ergonomics/human factors psychology refers to a branch of psychology which studies the ways that people and machines work together and helps design machines that are safer and easier to operate.

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Ergonomics/Human Factors Psychology is defined as the branch of psychology which studies the ways that people and machines work together and helps design machines that are safer and easier to operate.

Ergs refer to permanent constitutional source Traits that provide energy for goal-directed behavior. Ergs are the basic innate units of motivation.

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Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was born in Frankfurt, Germany and studied Psychology under Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud's daughter) at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. He moved to the United States and became a U.S. citizen in 1939 where he taught at several major universities including Harvard, Yale, and the University of California at Berkley.

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Erik Homburger Erikson was born in 1902 at Germany and died in 1994 at Harwich, Massachusetts. He was educated at Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. His most famous achievements:

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Eristic characterized by controversy or disputes. It is also refers to a person who engages in arguments or disputes; a controversialist.

Ernest Hilgard refers to the most prominent advocate of altered state of conciousness in hypnosis. Hildgard in 1986 put forward a Neo-dissociation theory. According to this theory, th

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Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916) observed that some mental experiences are the same even though they are stimulated by a wide range of sensory events. Example is the experiencing of geometric forms/space forms and melodies or time forms. Mach proposed a brand of positivism based on the phenomenological experiences of scientists. Because scientists, or anyone else, never experience the physical world directly, the scientist's job is to precisely describe the relationships among mental phenomena, and to do so without the aid of metaphysical speculation.